Funmilayo Ransome Kuti

(25 October 1900 Abeokuta, Nigeria - 13 April 1978 Lagos, Nigeria), born Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas to Daniel Olumeyuwa Thomas and Lucretia Phyllis Omoyeni Adeosolu. She was a teacher, political campaigner, and women's rights activist. Ransome-Kuti's political activism led to her being described as the doyen of female rights in Nigeria and was regarded as “The Mother of Africa.” Early on she was a very powerful force advocating for women's right to vote. She was described in 1947, by the West African Pilot as the “Lioness of Lisabi” for her leadership of Egba women on a campaign against arbitrary taxation of women. That struggle led to the abdication of the Egba King Oba Ademola II in 1949

Obasanjo order them and they throw the woman from a two storey building and she was killed.
tear  roll from my eyes, obasanjo has hurt the yoruba people so bad.
May her soul rest in peace.

Her 10 greatest achievements:

[1] First Nigerian woman to drive a car
[2] First Nigerian woman to ride a motorcycle
[3] Co-founder of the Nigerian Union of Students
[4] Co-founder of the Nigerian Union of Teachers
[5] Founded the largest African women's organisation ever with 20,000 members
[6] As the leader of Egba women lead a campaign against arbitrary taxation of women, that led to the abdication of the Egba king Oba Ademola II in 1949
[7] Was Nigeria's first ever representative at a women's international conference in the USSR in 1963
[8] She ran the junior section of Abeokuta Grammar School
[9] Led a concerted campaign to ensure that girls went to school
[10] Brought through a whole hos of Abeokuta kids, including her nephew Wole Soyinka. It is no accident that Abeokuta has produced the greatest number of Yoruba leaders to date.

Contributed by Ayo Akinfe. . .

In 1949, she led a protest against Native Authorities, especially against the Alake of Egbaland. She presented documents alleging abuse of authority by the Alake, who had been granted right to collect taxes. She also led the successful abolishment of separate tax rates for women.

In 1953, she founded the Federation of Nigerian Women Societies which formed an alliance with the Women's International Democratic Federation. Originally, she was a member of NCNC, but was later expelled by the party after she chose to run as an independent when the party snubbed her as a candidate for a federal house seat. After, her suspension, her political voice was diminished due to the direction of national politics, as both powerful members of the opposition, Awolowo and Adegbenro, had support close by. However, She never let her voice and activism be diminished.

-Ayo Akinfe

‎[1] Do you know that prior to Nigeria's independence, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was one of the most widely travelled Nigerian ever?
[2] Unlike most of our people who had only ever been to the UK and the US, she had actually been to China and Russia too
[3] She actually met with Mao Tse Tung in 1956
[4] After that, the British refused to renew her passport because it was said "It can be assumed that it is her intention to influence women with communist ideas and policies."
[5] She was also refused visa into the US because the American Government alleged she was a communist
[6] Prior to independence she founded the Commoners Peoples Party challenging the ruling NCNC, denying them victory in her area. She got 4,665 votes to NCNC's 9,755 thus allowing the opposition, Action Group 10,443 votes to win
[7] She was actually denied an NCNC ticket because she was deemed as too radical. Shame on the NCNC or she would have been our first federal female MP
[8] She was one of the delegates that negotiated Nigerian independence with the British government in 1957/58
[9] In 1953, she founded the Federation of Nigerian Women Societies which formed an alliance with the Women's International Democratic Federation
[10] While in the NCNC, she was the treasurer and then president of the Western NCNC women's Association

-Ayo Akinfe

This woman is just amazing! Why don't they teach us about her achievements?

mother of Grammy award winner fela kuti, grand child femi kuti was nominated for a Grammy

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she was a great woman.

Here is the picture of the protest when Obasanjo had thier mother killed. the other picture is beko kuti, son of the woman, he was a human right activitist. And in that picture is human right activitist gani fawehinmi, whose step mother gave me my name.

Sani Abacha has a stadium named after him, why doesn't this woman have anything named after her? Is it because she was a woman?